Posts Tagged ‘After School’

After School once again proved that they are the best female dance group in KPOP. They recently uploaded the dance practice of their latest single Flashback. Miss A and After School are the only ones in KPOP I can seriously say can really dance. Sure SNSD and WG are synchronized, but I think it would be pretty difficult for them to do challenging routines.

I had my doubts whether After School will still be intact without Kahi, but seeing this made me realize that After School is no longer a pop group, but more of a symbol of female sexiness with burlesque routines. Its a compliment actually. When you hear After School, you’ll know what you’ll be getting. Quality performance. Members will come and go but the idea of After School will live on with the remaining and future members to come.

It’s been a while guys. But to be clear, I’m not blogging once more. This post is just to inform you that the links to the music charts and everything else on my blog roll (Twitter, HomePage, Online Chart etc) will be migrated to my youtube channel. I’m doing this as a favor to a friend. Don’t know why she wants it to be like that but it seems to mean a lot to her. Anyway, here’s the link to my channel.

I watch music shows most of the time in kpopflash.net. They air everything that has to do with Kpop. Well, not everything actually. But you can guarantee that this link will be able to help you watch music shows (M! Countdown, Music Bank, Music Core, and Inkigayo). And according to my sources, they will also air the Gayo Festivals. So enjoy! Another thing I will leave you guys.

I’ll try to update the links on my blogroll but I won’t promise anything. Though it’s vacation. I do have a lot of things to do.

I have only a week left of blogging. And before I go, I would like to share to the new Kpop enthusiasts, 30 of what I feel the most well written songs in Kpop. These songs have remained in my playlist for quite some time and I hope you guys will take some time and listen and appreciate them.

After School is the 6th Most Talented Idol Group in Korea today. And yes, they are the most talented female idol group in Korea. I hope SONEs, Black Jacks, and Wonderfuls won’t take this hardly. But you have to admit, After School is in a different league than other girl groups out there.

When After School debuted, they were depicted as the Korean Pussycat Dolls. But their debut was actually a failure. No offense, “Ah!” was the least successful of all the debut songs of female groups that year. Well, least successful of all the girl groups that have established a name for themselves now. Remember, 2009 was the year where girl groups were debuting left and right. Also, the timing was unfortunate as well for After School. Their debut coincided with SNSD’s “Gee” promotion. But little by little, After School started establishing themselves as one of top idol group of Korea and they did that with “Because of You”.

After School style is more on western. And you have to admit that their very keen on details. The angles of the edges of the routine are on the mark. No offense intended to the other groups, I don’t think any of them can do After School. But After School can do their songs. It’s actually very puzzling why elite companies pass on these women when these girls are very discipline on their craft. To go further as an artist, it is no longer about talent, it’s about discipline. And I can name a few who I think should not have debuted because of their lack of character. Cough Krystal cough. Cough Sulli cough.

I know some of you might be wondering why AS became 6th when majority of the song is sang by Kahi. But as I said before. This ranking is not about equal distribution of the song but how well the song is performed. And though After School make Nana and Lizzy share their lines, the point is the performance is still grandeur. But this is also one of the reasons why they just finished 6th.

When you go up this high in the ranking, it’s no longer who’s better than who, it’s about who can do more. And because of the group’s dependence on Kahi and Raina, their possibilities gets limited. I’m astonished actually why they leave out the other members with little parts. I thought first that maybe it’s because they can’t sing, but hearing Nana in Orange Caramel made me think otherwise. She has a nice tone. Or maybe After School’s songs are more fitting Kahi’s voice. Right now, I think AS’s weakness is Jooyeon. She can keep up with the dancing but her vocals are not as powerful.

Another reason why After School landed on 6th is because they’re up against male groups that have a lot to offer. It’s not that I’m being sexist, but it is a proven fact that guys can do more than women. And as I said, it’s not about who’s better than who, but who can do more.

I’ll leave you with my favorite performances of After School. A few more days left but I think the remaining 5 are a bit predictable. But let’s see if you guys can determine the ranking of 2pm, Big Bang, DBSK, MBLAQ and SHINee.

As some of you might know, I’m a dancer. And one thing that kept me in Kpop was the undeniably amazing routines. In my departure, I want to share the ten routines that I seriously adore. I hope in the future, Korea will show more quality music and performance. If you think about it, a lot of performance today are banking on the fan service factor which I’m not holding them against. That is what their fans want. But if they’re not cute or pretty or handsome, will the routine work? Anyway, here are the ten routines I wished will still be recognize after my departure.

Seeing the ranking, it’s a bit surprising that the artist that are dominating Korea right now, didn’t even made it to the top 10. SNSD and 2AM are way down on the chart. I’m especially surprise that SNSD is that low. I mean they sell so much album but yet they don’t have that much fans overseas. Hmm. So SNSD fans does buy more than 1 album to provide a win for them in music shows. Also, I’m surprise that U-Kiss is so high in the ranking and DBSK is so low. Maybe this does prove that U-Kiss is more popular outside Korea. Just like Supernova.

[EDIT]
I apologize, I did not see that Super Junior fan page.

Anyway, congrats to Super Junior for being the most popular Korean artist on Facebook. This is a big accomplishment since Facebook is a worldwide social networking site unlike Daum. Feel free to comment if there’s any inconsistencies with what I wrote or if I have forgotten an artist.

[EDIT]
I checked and double checked and tripled checked the information above after I had that mistake on Super Junior. I am confident that at Dec 17, these are the most popular facebook groups of the artist that was mentioned. As the days goes by, these FB page will grow and I can’t keep updating this post.